LITTLE FALLS — A 79-year-old Eagle Bend woman died in a Morrison County crash Tuesday, July 12.
The Minnesota State Patrol reported the woman was eastbound on Highway 27 in Pike Creek Township just west of Little Falls at 12:08 p.m. Tuesday. Logan Richard Klooster, 33, of Ankeny, Iowa, was westbound in his 2019 Jeep Compass at the same time, when his vehicle crossed the centerline and hit the woman’s 2016 Nissan Versa Note hatchback head-on.
Klooster was transported to St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Little Falls for non-life-threatening injuries.
The woman, whose name was expected to be released Wednesday morning, died as a result of the crash.
The Morrison County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.